Immaculate Conception (Sand Springs, Iowa)

Immaculate Conception (Sand Springs, Iowa)

"The first Catholics bought a stone church built by the Sand Springs Baptists at the beginning of Civil War and closed for ten or more years. The church was dedicated to the Mother of God under her title of the Immaculate Conception. The first recorded baptism was in 1878. Father J.P. O’Connor, pastor of Monticello, was the first to care for them. His successor at Monticello, was the first to care for them. His successor at Monticello, Father John Tobin, continued that pastoral care from 1884 to 1887. When Father Tobin was transferred to the Fairbank parish, on Christmas Day 1887 Father John McCormick began 26 years of service to the Monticello parish and its Sand Springs mission."

-Rev. Msgr. Edgar Kurt, Parish Profile #179, The Witness, June 17, 1990.

The Archdiocese of Dubuque.
The Center for Dubuque History at Loras College.

Burback, Emily. Burns, Daniel. Gibson, Michael. Oberfoell, Carol. Waldmeir, Helen. Waldmeir, John.

Various primary and secondary sources.

English.

Loras College
Kucera Center for Catholic Thought
Frank and Ida Goedken Series: "Spiritual Life in the Upper Mississippi River Valley"

ca. 1880-1997. Oratory: 1997.
History of the parish over the span of 117 years, including information about its priests and parishioners.

Annual Report (1 document)
Deed/Legal Documents (3 documents)
History (1 document)
History booklet (1 document)
News Articles (3 documents)
Oratory (1 document)

Hanus, Most Rev. Jerome. O.S.B. “Decree of Parish Closure.” Chancery, Dubuque, Iowa, 2 June 1997.

Kurt, Rev. Msgr. Edgar. “Parish Profile #179: Immaculate Conception Parish, Sand Springs.” The Witness. 17 June 1990.

Miller, Kiley. “The new center of Sand Springs.” Cascade Pioneer. 09 January 2002.

“The Immaculate Conception Church, Sand Springs.” Centennial History of the Archdiocese of Dubuque. 544,545.